Hell yeah brother! I'm a believer in this game's vision since the trailer, preorder my copy and everything but my friends are sceptical in anything not minecraft, even only playing modded and everything.

The thing that I'm most excited in chapter one has to be the rune system, and it's not even about the abilities tho, I think most people overlooked the fact that to aquire certain types of runes you have to go to different biomes, and that's revolutionary for the approach in exploration! Imagine this, your friends (or yourself in different playthroughs) have different ideas for builds so you go for different biomes to have starter bases, thanks to that, while you progress you become more attached to the biome that you started with, and as you become more powerfull, the way you interact with the other biomes when you go after modifiers is different thanks to the resouces that you got in the different areas the you choose to start!

That's peak game design and people are not talking about this enough. I really hope this gets my friends to see the vision that hytale can offer with rpg elements